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Akhil Shahani
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19th May 2008
As an entrepreneur responsible for setting your own standards, have you ever wondered if you could speed things up a little bit, or maybe incur lower expenses every month? Reducing staff strength was and continues to be seen as a solution to substandard p...
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19th May 2008
Starting out on your own is indeed a risky business - most of the time you are not sure that you are doing the smart thing. To help you on your way, here is a list of things that you should avoid while starting a new business.
Think of the new venture...
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19th May 2008
You can’t escape the term “USP” in most writing on marketing. In case you haven’t done much reading in that field, we’d like to tell you that USP stands for Unique Selling Point (or Proposition). It’s what differentiates your product or servic...
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19th May 2008
What Are Budgets and Forecasts?
These terms stand for the predictions made about cash flow, expenses and future income. A budget forecast for startup business predicts the upcoming performance about financial projections and forecasts along with financ...
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19th May 2008
“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." - Sam Walton
The success of any business depends on how well it treats its customers. Customer se...
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19th May 2008
"Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; if it is not managed, nothing else can be managed." – Peter F. Drucker
One of the major causes of stress is work overload and not having enough time to accomplish your tasks. The easy way to get out of t...
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19th May 2008
“Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.”
- Henry Ford
You got it! Team building is the art of building a team with a can-do attitude to achieve tar...
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19th May 2008
Almost 90% of small business owners overpay the IRS each year – do you want to belong to this category? We guess not! There are a number of tax deductions for a small business to take advantage of, and help save them money. Here are the top 10:
1. Au...
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19th May 2008
There may come a time when you wish to sell the business. This can become a complex and stress ridden experience, to the detriment of the business as well as its owners, if the process is not managed right. Besides the nitty-gritty of finding customers, c...
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19th May 2008
Social responsibility towards the environment is fast becoming part of the business psyche of our society. Starting with the big guns who call it “corporate responsibility” to smaller companies pursuing eco friendly processes, there is a new sensitivi...
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19th May 2008
Small businesses can rarely afford the luxury of a large full time staff, with all the skill sets needed for the functioning of the business. Come to think of it, even if they could, many business owners would not want the burden of managing a large headc...
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19th May 2008
A corporate setting or home office, no matter where you are – for an entrepreneur, stress is de rigueur. There’s simply no escaping it! Stress can be described as anything that disturbs your overall sense of well being. While work overload, de-motivat...
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19th May 2008
The manufacturing process in your company is worrying you. You want to know how to monitor and control the processes in your factory. Statistical Process Control (SPC) offers you a tool to determine when a statistically significant change has occurred in ...
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19th May 2008
To understand the need and importance of startup financial models, we first need to know what exactly it is that the financial sector involves itself in. Financial institutions, such as investment companies, banks and security firms handle the flow of cas...
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19th May 2008
Building up a business from scratch needs great amount of patience apart from a good financial back up. Though every business has its own specific cash requirements throughout the various stages of development, most businesses go through almost similar se...
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